BEST TRAVEL ROM-COM SINCE JAB WE MET

mismatched they make chalk and cheese appear like long-lost twins - take off on a journey that they, and we, can never forget.

More than anything else, it is just so refreshing to meet protagonists who are over-thehill and not afraid of the view on the other side. At least not afraid to peep with brazen curiosity to see what lies in store after middle age.

Qarib Qarib Singlle

STARRING: Irrfan Khan, Parvathy

DIRECTOR: Tanuja Chandra

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Look, there are lots of problems in Qarib Qarib Singlle - as there are in life. But that’s what makes life, and life in the movies, worth living.

Qarib Qarib Singlle is a delightful ‘romp’-com about two middle-aged strangers - one a widow and the other a vagabond - travelling together to meet his ex-girlfriends. Don’t giggle. Nothing new here. But then if you want something new, please visit your nearest mall and buy yourself a fresh coat of paint for your living room. Movies make sense only when they bring us characters we know in ways that we never knew that we knew them.

And I can swear I have met Yogi and Jaya somewhere. The fact that they are played by Irrfan and Parvathy (a prized nd for Bollywood) is just so providential for director Tanuja Chandra. The director gets the best possible actors for the two principal parts. I can’t imagine what Yogi and Jaya would have been like had they been played by George Clooney and Meryl Streep.

What follows after the awless casting for the awed protagonists is sheer serendipity, as Yogi and Jaya - so